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or will be edntisiued this, yea \ll who have any of these "al on ther farms are invited to write i = Othg Drainage 1014 The Driest Year "on Record $1 The Ontario' 'Agricultural College {reports that the Crop year of 1914 was the driest on' record in Ontario Tho precipitation from 'harvest 1013 | {to harvest 1914 lacked 53 inches of being up to the average. This is a shortage of almost 20. per cent. The | College has often stated that tile | Srainage was effective i in a dry ssason as well as inf a wet one, andr last year it was able to prove this, in a most i concluded the {province whore: eile 'or po drainage: 1 Fhe plas] is to drain 16 average that at hd: organized Class, School workers have eed of someting which scholar a-vital interest ganization has been in this particular, rer, etc., and runs its affairs, then that execu responsible; for the goodyiq Dept Your' Savings Reg ve Every Dollar Flom Date of Deposit We solicit your Earns Interest 3 account in SAVINGS DEPARTMENT 3 PORT "PERRY BRANCH » 3 H. G. HUTCHESON, Manage. also at Bl D, P. Fi fy Pramhets Fd dR ita for their use arrives. "Love of Home" "Kindness to Animals" "Wonders of Nature" Missionary. Needs" 'Mission ary Buctesses" and many similar ttles | may be sed in classifying the pictares The scheme gives much room for the : 1 ingenuity af the "teacher. who soon ind cai 5s pieces , 'that Would bor day it the | country. Some Isses Support missionaries, others k after the comfort of Widow Jones ; fn 'some 'poor fellow over the hrd places of life: - There is infinite oRportunity for the ized class. departients hat - ha Cradle Roll and the. Home Depart- ment. These departments make it possible for the Suiday. School to keep in touch with every person in the community--from the small baby to the old folk who cannot longer attend school, It is interesting to note that in one particular this district is ahead of the Standard set by the Provincial S. S. Association--in the matter of attend ance. The standard requires twent; five per cent of the Protestant popu- lation énrolléd in the.school, and this point has béen exceeded in Port Perry Reach and Scugbg. = . + After the. afternoon 'Session' was "Greenbank friends served: an 'excellent supper. They had gone to considerable trouble to -| make their guests welcome and com= fortable. The church = had been | beautifully decorated with flags, bun- ting and * flowers, Everything that could be done was done to make the stay of the delegates pleasant. The evenirg session was largely attended, the church being crowded. Three good addresses were given. I'he first by Mr. R. Bamforth on "The : Relation of the Church to the Sundas School" empbasized the fact that the Sunday. School is the child of the Chureh, and that the duties of parent- 4 require .a vital interest in the welfare: the child. He pointed out aine; Provincial the Elementary a most practical rasching' in}, the school Manchester. proved helpful are the begins to find "it quite as ifitetesting as.does the Scholar. ' Rev. HI W. Foley gave dn address on boy's work, and outlined a pro- gam of activities given in the Cana- dian standard of Efficienty Test." This" program. would seem too large: to many: but-it covers the work of years, and need not be taken up all at once. "The musical services were greatly helped:by 'the presence of the Port Perry" Orchestra. and' the pleasing | selections rendered by the Bethesda | Male Quartette, The general sgirit of cheerful help- fulness was nost marked and made the Conference the most pleasing yet held The following officers were elected for the ensuing year. President--S. Farmer, Port Perry 1st. Vice Pres.--~Joha Johnston, 2nd. Vice PresRev. J Ford, Port Perry. Secretary 'I'reasurer--Mrs. Adams, Port Perry. Supt. Elementary Division--- Mrs, S. Barrett Manchester. Supt. Secondary Division--Mr. Stanley Ward, Uxbridge. Supt. A. B. C. Dept.--Clarence Cook, Prospect. Supt. Home Dept.---Miss A. Hold- ershaw, Greenbank. Supt. Teacher Dobson, Greenbank. Supt Missionary Clarke, Scugog. Supt. Temprance Dept.--Ure Irwin Part Perry. E. A. Training--Frank Dept.--Fred 'District and General 000 Harold Williams a boy Scout of Oshawa died recently. The funeral was conducted with full Boy Scout{' honors. Provincial Secretary Ham- mond was present. The procession was led by the Citizens Band followed by the Boy Scouts. The casket was wrapped in the fla8, 'and the -hedrse was drawn by four white horses each led by a soldier. The pall bearers, 6 Scouts walked three on either side of the hearse. 2 000 Mrs. George H. Wilson the wife of the publisher of the Lindsay Evening Post, died on March Sth. coe Mr. John Gibson who died in 'Oshawa on March 4. was born in Ire d, Hes came to Prescott at the MacF. Ee. Broskling District and General Rev T, R' Socton of Uxbridge, will preach his farewell sermon' in tne Baptist church on '21st "of. March, He will take "a months rest making his "headquarters at Toronto, Mr. Sorton has received. an offer, 'from 'a church in'the States" but his'decided not to' accept it. . 000 Wiha eo result caf gq house-to-house canvas in the Township of "Brock, County ol Ontario, Mr, R. A. Purvis, Treasurer of the local" Belgian' Relief Fund, has swelled the Toronto Board of Trade. fund by th the:s sum of de 929, bs 25, ' 060 Discussing the prospects of the completion of the Toronto Eastern Railway, our esteemed cotem, the Pickering «News, Suggests' that "the: heavy expense, incident to purchasing the right of way and the necessarily greater cost of construction between Pickering. Village, and Toronto: along the lake shore, by the route at present adopted, might be avoided through returning to original location from Pickering village westerly along the second concession to a junction with | the Canadian Northern at Cherrpwood whence it could use the latter's lines into the city. The idea is an excellent one. Moreover, there never was any sufficient reason except to satisfy the the land speculators interested in - the fake shore route, and who were re- sponsible for it, in making the unfor- tunate change. There now can be no doubt the Toronto Eastern wouldiong ago have been in operation, but for this malign influence exerted 'upon the directors in diverting ; the road from Whitby, Oshawa and Bowmanville, whose support alone made it possible to secure they charter, at the road from, gave that Support for the more direct route via Cherry- wood. There has never been any vols untary action by the municipalities since. to authorize the change. that the McKenzie & Mann interests are active in Ottawa 10 an_ attempt to: get an extension of time for the com yletion of the road. It would be proper for ihese three towns through ici representatives at Ottawa, to insist. on a return to the original scheme of the Toronto Eastern Railway. Whitby Gazette its original location: Now 000 It 15 expected that the increased postage rate will come into force about the middle of next month, 000 : The. store occupied by Messrs Dobson and - Crosby, Uxbridge,' has been purchased by Messrs F. G & A. W. G. Crosby from Mrs. Dr. Evans 3 000 3 * On Saturday evening March: the E Jom, Emery Silver died at his home : ig Usbtidge | in his 84th, year.